Category: Case Study

ActOn CHE Finishing Technology Processes a Week’s Worth of Production in 1.5 Days

Project Background Our customer is an innovative global supplier of quality products, trusted brands and creative solutions to manufacturers of automotive, light commercial, heavy-duty and off-highway vehicles. They are committed to delivering superior quality through innovation and engineering excellence, using cutting-edge processes. The aim of the project was to clean the Sintered Pivot Blocks and… Read more »

Surface Finishing & Mirror Polishing Dental Partials

The aim The main focus of this project was to obtain a smooth and mirror finishing on the Dental Partials. Also the customer was keen on finding the surface finishing technology that would be affordable and efficient in comparison with manual finishing. Moreover as there is a required throughput of 20 parts/ day, we had to… Read more »

The Project Background Recently we have been contacted by Ricoh UK Products, who we have met at Made in the Midlands Exhibition 2018, to develop a Vibratory Finishing solution to smooth 3D printed polypropylene parts they manufactured, via Selective Laser Sintering. Ricoh is a global provider of technology that transforms business processes and information management… Read more »

CHE Finishing Process Developed for Additive Manufacturing Company

Recently we had the opportunity to develop a finishing process for an additive manufacturing company, that builds 3D parts for a wide array of engineering sectors. This project required finishing an additive manufactured Inconel wheel. The part end finish implied a high polished surface on one side of the wheel whilst leaving the other untouched.… Read more »

Deburring and Polishing Mansory Drill Bits – Case Study

Our client manufactures tools for the automotive and construction industry. They have recently approached us as they were looking for a better way for deburring and polishing the mansory drill bits they manufacture. Up till the point of contacting us, they were manually finishing the parts, which meant a high rate of rework and rejection rate, inconsistent results and time… Read more »

Mass Finishing Process in a Reduced Time – Axle Holder Case Study

ActOn Finishing was approached by one of its customers to develop a mass finishing process for an axle holder. The customer manufactures forge automotive parts for the motorcycle industry. They were manual polishing the components and were looking to implement vibratory finishing in their process. However, at the time they had no experience with mass finishing techniques… Read more »